HRAF at the Eleventh Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS) in...
Earlier this month (September 7-11, 2015), the Eleventh Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS XI) convened in Vienna, Austria. The conference was a joint effort of four major...
View ArticleHRAF Research: Natural Hazards and Cultural Transformations
How often do events have to occur for humans to plan for them? Do unpredictable hazards lead to different cultural transformations than do more predictable hazards? Under what conditions are...
View ArticleHunter-Gatherer Resources from HRAF
Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) has an ever-expanding collection of resources on hunter-gatherers and foragers. Indeed, hunter-gathering is one of the most popular subsistence types in the eHRAF...
View ArticleWomen, gender and power in eHRAF
How does the relationship between gender and power vary cross-culturally? According to Forbes, Angela Merkel tops the list of “world’s most powerful women“, with Hillary Clinton and Melinda Gates...
View ArticleRomantic or disgusting? Passionate kissing is not a human universal
From pop culture to evolutionary psychology, we have come to take kissing for granted as universally desirable among humans and inseparable from other aspects of affection and intimacy. However, a...
View ArticleHuman Relations Area Files Timeline: 1949 – Present
For over 60 years, Human Relations Area Files has served the educational community and contributed to an understanding of world cultures by assembling, indexing, and providing access to primary...
View ArticleTrick or treat: Ghosts, demons and zombies found in eHRAF
Happy Halloween! It’s the time of year for ghastly ghouls, wicked witches and terrifying things that go bump in the night. From haunted houses to headless horsemen, there are many spooky legends in...
View ArticleeHRAF databases rated “highly recommended” by Choice magazine
Full-text reviews: eHRAF World Cultures; eHRAF Archaeology. HRAF’s cross-cultural databases – eHRAF Archaeology and eHRAF World Cultures – have each been reviewed as “highly recommended” for...
View ArticleHRAF at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (AAA 2015) in...
Attending this week’s American Anthropological Association (AAA) annual meeting in Denver, Colorado? In addition to the meetings, talks, and poster sessions, I hope you find time to stop by our booth...
View ArticleBlackfoot Cooking and Baking Recipes for the Holiday Season
Wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving on behalf of the HRAF staff! As you may know, our online cross-cultural database, eHRAF World Cultures, contains mostly ethnographic descriptions. However, eHRAF...
View ArticleCarved in Stone….Prehistoric Representative Art
In eHRAF Archaeology you’ll find collected descriptive texts for prehistoric traditions from around the world. All these texts are indexed with subjects based on the Outline of Cultural Materials...
View ArticleFeatured eHRAF teaching exercise: Cross-Cultural Correlation Study
Educators: Did you know that the HRAF website contains an open access collection of nearly 40 teaching exercises (sample syllabi) for classroom use that include questions and class assignments based on...
View ArticleNew Year around the world
As people throughout much of the Western world mark the end of another year by finalizing their New Year’s resolutions, it is a good time to reflect anthropologically on how others around the globe...
View ArticleFeatured eHRAF Culture: The Maasai
The Maasai (Masai), nomadic pastoralists who live in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, are one of the 295 cultures covered in the eHRAF World Cultures ethnographic database. Twenty-one documents...
View ArticleHRAF at 2016 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston, MA
To All Librarians, I hope this finds you well in the New Year! If you are attending this week’s American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Boston, please join me for an informative tour...
View ArticleCarved in Stone: Prehistoric Representative Art
In eHRAF Archaeology, you will find a collection of descriptive texts for prehistoric archaeological traditions from around the world. All of these texts are indexed with subjects based on the Outline...
View ArticleeHRAF databases receive two Outstanding Academic Title awards from Choice...
We are excited to announce that both of HRAF’s cross-cultural databases – eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology – have received Outstanding Academic Title awards from Choice Magazine and they were...
View ArticleeHRAF Archaeology: Inka of Peru
The Inka tradition extends from 800 to 400 BP. The original Inka homeland was the Cuzco valley of south-central Peru, but the Inka Empire eventually extended along the Andes from Columbia to northern...
View ArticleHRAF’s 2015 Year in Review and 2016 Preview
Happy 2016! Another year has flown by here at HRAF. Since our last yearly review, we’ve been working hard to fulfill our goals. This year, we’re expanding on a number of new projects and initiatives...
View ArticleSubsistence Types in eHRAF for Teaching & Researching
Faculty and researchers who are teaching courses or doing research on subsistence types may be interested in using HRAF’s cross-cultural databases, eHRAF World Cultures & eHRAF Archaeology. The...
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